If you were a professional NBA player and you made the majority of your income from endorsements or the E! network, but the league that you play in – essentially the reason that you’re even famous – is currently in a strike with the majority of its players scraping together pennies from their last paychecks to make ends meet, would you A) meet with your teammates regularly and offer to help with little things like groceries and rent while the lockout continues, B) step to the forefront of the players union and take a strong stance for the benefit of your peers instead of cowtowing to the owners, or C) say f*ck ’em all and attend Fashion Week in New York City.

You bet your sweet Burberry-scented ass that you’re going to Fashion Week. Just like the NBA’s biggest stars, who instead of being concerned with the possibility of no season, made sure they were up to par on the latest from the top designers like that one guy, and the lady with one name, and that other dude. Me and fashion go together like Eddy Curry and exercise.

Models and free clothes. I’m so glad to see the NBA’s top faces working hard to end this lockout.

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I wanted to compliment LeBron on his fashion, then remembered that there is no way he dresses himself.

09.14.11 at 12:02 pm

Upstate Underdog

Rocky Dennis in picture #2, ftw.

09.14.11 at 12:03 pm

Upstate Underdog

Also, watching women walk back and forth in clothes that probably only 0.5% of the population can afford sounds like the most boring thing ever.

09.14.11 at 12:04 pm

Dormammu

Not pictured: Luke and Bill going “London Bridge” on a Deadhead!

09.14.11 at 12:04 pm

Dormammu

@UU-Just wow.

09.14.11 at 12:14 pm

Upstate Underdog

@Dormammu, wow on what?

09.14.11 at 12:23 pm

Doctor Awesomus

How much do I love Amare’s menorah necklace?

Also, can we stop with the HERP DERP NBA PLAYERS WORKING OR NOT stuff? Some players are rich enough enough to chill out at Fashion Week; some players are Scott Hastings. LIFE AIN’T FAIR, BITCHESSSSSSSSS

/this, after getting his dander ruffled by the Atlantic article about the NCAA
//all sports are exploitative to some degree or another
///but seriously, how many Kardashians are there?

09.14.11 at 12:28 pm

Dormammu

@UU-Rocky Dennis…as if needed said.

09.14.11 at 12:30 pm

Upstate Underdog

@Dormammu, I thought so. Just checking. Great call by Burnsy.

09.14.11 at 12:34 pm

Burnsy

I have no problem with these guys attending Fashion Week. But if I were another player, especially one of their teammates struggling with my last paycheck, I’d at least wonder why these guys aren’t stepping up and appearing on ESPN every day, calling the owners out. That could change the entire outcome of this thing, if the owners were threatened by their elite players and moneymakers.

But they’re not, so whatevs. Hopefully they got Rolex deep in some Diesel muff.

09.14.11 at 5:42 pm

Smegga

Burnsy, I like these posts but you need to give us the names of whoever’s in the pictures. Maybe a hover tag.